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Varuna
Varuna One of the oldest gods in Hindu mythology, Varuna was originally a creator and the ruler of the sky. In the Vedas—the sacred texts of ancient India—he was a supreme, all-knowing deitywho enforced the laws of the universe and human morality.He ruled the gods... Read more |
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British Sky Broadcasting Group plc
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc 6 Centaurs Business Park Grant Way Isleworth, Middlesex TW7 5QD United Kingdom Telephone: (44) 1-20-7705-3000 Fax: (44) 1-20-7705-3030 Web site: http://www.sky.com Public Company Incorporated: 1988 as SkyTV and British Satellite... Read more |
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sky
sky apparent dome over the earth, background of the clouds, sun, moon, and stars. The blue color of the clear daytime sky results from the selective scattering of light rays by the minute particles of dust and vapor in the earth's atmosphere . The rays with longer wavelengths (the reds and... Read more |
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Allan Rex Sandage
Allan Rex Sandage Astronomer Allan Rex Sandage (born 1926) took it as his life's work to find out how old and how large the universe is. His work led him to conclude the universe is 15 billion to 20 billion years old. Sandage is credited with the discovery of quasars, small blue cosmic objects... Read more |
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Mulungu
Mulungu The Nyamwezi people of Tanzania in East Africa worship Mulungu as the god who created all things and who watches over the earth. Although he created the world, Mulungu is a very distant god with no personal relationship with living beings. According to legend,... Read more |
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proof (mathematics)
Proof What do the statements 2 + 2 = 4 and "the sky is blue" have in common? One might say that they are both true. The statement about the sky can be confirmed by going outside and observing the color of the sky. How, then, can one confirm the truth of the statement 2 + 2... Read more |
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SkyMall Inc
SkyMall, Inc. 1520 E. Pima StreetPhoenix, Arizona 85034U.S.A.(602) 254-9777Fax: (602) 254-6075Web site: http://www.skymall.com Public Company Incorporated: 1989Employees: 200Sales: $60.8 million (1997)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQTicker Symbol: SKYMSICs: 5961 Mail Order Houses; 2741 Miscellaneous... Read more |
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zodiacal light
zodiacal light or zodiacal band, a faint band of light sometimes seen in the western sky just after sunset in the spring, extending up from the horizon at the point where the sun has just set, or in the eastern sky just before sunrise in the autumn. The light is so faint as to be obscured by... Read more |
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culminate
culminate in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit .... Read more |
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Light pollution
Light Pollution As humankind enters the twenty-first century, ours is the first generation where the majority of children cannot routinely see the night sky in all its splendor and glory. The problem is caused by light pollution, excess or misdirected artificial light that alters the natural night... Read more |
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scud
...scud·ding ) [intr.] move fast in a straight line because or as if driven by the wind: we lie watching the clouds scudding across the sky three small ships were scudding before a brisk breeze. • n. 1. chiefly poetic/lit. a formation... |
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blacken
...decay, or bruising: [intr.] he set fire to the paper, watching the end blacken as it burned [as adj.] (blackened) her...full combat gear with blackened faces. ∎ [intr.] (of the sky) become dark as night or a storm approaches. ∎ [tr.] fig... |
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Cost of watching Sky cut in victory for football fans.(News)
...BROADCASTERS have cut the cost of watching top-class football in time...will offer access to BSkyB's Sky Sports 1 and 2 by August for...Premiership season and undercuts Sky's own package, which costs...allows other broadcasters to buy Sky Sports 1 and 2 at ... |
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Football: Watching Sky did my box it; MORTON 3 STIRLING 0 Hero Jason hated a...
...spending a Saturday afternoon at his home in Dundee with only Sky Sports' Jeff Stelling and Charlie Nicholas for company...At three o'clock on a Saturday I don't want to be watching Sky Sports. Playing in the reserves was okay but I desperately... |
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Dry Spell Has Area Officials Watching Sky; Potomac Running Low; Drought Watch...
...Washington region's primary drinking water source. Watching days of cloudless skies pass, they worry that continued rainless forecasts...emergency declared, Shell said. Officials are watching the current trend and its effect on surface water... |
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STORM VICTIMS WATCHING SKY WITH ANGUISH
...this article. E-mail:alvarado@northjersey.com The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-06-2011 STORM VICTIMS WATCHING SKY WITH ANGUISHByline: MONSY ALVARADOStaff Writer John C. Ensslin contributed to this article. E-mail:alvarado... |
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A LIFE WATCHING THE SKIES JESS GOMEZ, FORMER POW, NOW JUST ENJOYS 'WHAT GOD...
...for about 20 minutes, just watching. I was afraid to go in the...bombardier out the hatch, into the sky. "I remembered there was...days on his own schedule, watching the open road, dictating his...doing there, just sitting, watching the sky. ... |
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U.K. cable investors watching TeleWest, Sky stock offerings. (TeleWest...
...market this week will be carefully watching the stocks of the three publicly...Communications Group Ltd. and British Sky Broadcasting come to the market...sure what impact the British Sky Broadcasting IPO will have as Sky goes to the market for $1... |
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AUTHOR MICHAEL CRAFT TELLS OF PEOPLE WATCHING SKIES FOR ALIENS
...N.Y. -- Some watch the skies for strange lights and alien ships. Michael Craft has been watching the watchers. His new book...What are people seeing in the sky? Readers expecting an answer...times, strange lights in the skies were chalked up to evil ... |
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Review - Software - Vodafone Mobile TV. Watching Sky channels on your 3G...
...Will Stapley. Vodafone has teamed up with Sky to bring live TV direct to your 3G mobile...includes familiar-sounding channels, such as Sky One and MTV, programme schedules differ to those on standard Sky Digital. There are exceptions, such as... |
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WATCHING the Sky news ticker yesterday.
Byline: PAUL HAYWARD WATCHING the Sky news ticker yesterday I almost spat out my tea when thewords rolled by: 'Police investigating & Ronaldo & three transvestites... |
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Fewer eyes watching the skies.
...Elisa Crouch Oct. 13--The Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday plans to reduce the number of eyes watching skies above Lambert Field by 24 percent in coming years, at a time when airport officials work to add flights and open... |
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